 October 15, 2008
Dear Friend, As you read this week's WeGetIt.org Wednesday Bulletin, please be thinking of friends who would benefit from it, and then forward it to them. Thanks for your support! Gore: "It's not personal; it's strictly business"
What would you think if a Ford executive urged people to sabotage GM auto plants? More important, what would law enforcement officers think? In a recent speech, Al Gore said that "it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration." That goes far beyond his earlier call to eliminate all coal-fired generating plants from the United States. "Civil disobedience" is another phrase for "illegal activity." As economist William Anderson put it , because Gore owns shares in competing energy companies, his call for criminal activity against competitors comes close to criminal activity itself. Ironically, Gore wants state attorneys general to prosecute executives of fossil fuel-burning electric generating businesses who question manmade global warming for securities fraud, a felony that could lead to imprisonment. Like the young Vito Corleoni in Mario Puza's The Godfather, who made sure his competitors in the olive oil business had problems like robbed delivery trucks and major spills in the streets, Gore calls for criminal activity against his competitors. The Securities Exchange Commission should be listening. On a related note, a British jury acquitted Greenpeace activists who caused $61,000 damage to a coal-fired power station, claiming the danger of global warming justified their action. Do greens really believe plants have rights? Switzerland's constitution now gives plants inherent value and rights and says experimenters must give due consideration for their dignity. A treatise on "the moral consideration of plants for their own sake," done by Swiss scholars to flesh out the new constitutional protection, says plants' dignity requires that experiments safeguard "their independence, i.e., reproductive ability and adaptive ability." Never mind that such a law would have forbidden the development of seedless grapes and jackasses (the sterile cross between a mule and a horse). As Gautam Naik asked in The Wall Street Journal, "For a carrot, is there a more mortifying fate than being peeled, chopped and dropped into boiling water?" But there may be a silver lining in this cloud of nonsense. If plants have rights, surely their most basic right is to adequate nutrition for healthy growth. Part of that is carbon dioxide. For every doubling of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, plant growth efficiency increases by an average 35%. Is it time for a class-action suit in a Swiss court on behalf of all the world's plants against all individuals and governments that promote reduced carbon dioxide emissions to fight global warming? For more on the benefits of rising carbon dioxide, see www.co2science.org. Financial crisis undercuts Europe's fight against global warming The Wall Street Journal reports:
It seems leaders in rich countries are suddenly coming to understand why developing countries (like India and China) aren't too concerned about fighting global warming. Climate change may be a trendy concern for wealthy people who aren't worried about putting food on the table; but now, faced with difficult choices, the expensive quest to stop a slight (and apparently largely natural) warming is becoming less attractive. Now, please forward this message to your pastor, other Christian leaders, and friends and urge them to sign the WeGetIt.org Declaration, too! The more people sign, the stronger the message our leaders will hear that Biblical principles and factual evidence, not media hype about speculative fears like global warming, should guide our care for the environment and the poor.Gratefully, We value your privacy. If you received this from a friend, you can join the campaign at www.WeGetIt.org. This message was originally sent to [email address suppressed] because someone signed the WeGetIt.org Declaration as "fullname." Edit your name | Bulletin Archives | Unsubscribe | Inquiries |
